The Contribution of Pathology to our Knowledge of the Internal Environment

I FEEL that no greater honour could have been conferred uponl mlie by mily colleagues than that I should have been asked to deliver this year's Robert Camlipbell Oratioln. Yet it was with more than usual diffidence that I accepted their invitation. In tlle past when we have drawni orators from outside our own school we have been able to honiour a Colebrook or a Fleming, wN7hilst inside the school scrutiny has beenl severe, and the inames of Sinclair, Houston, Fullerton, Sinton, and Purce attest to its severity. For myself, I feel that my time of attainment wTas not yet come, aind my vish would have been that I should have been more worthy to follow in the footsteps of those wlho have done service to this appointment. "WVhat you have inherited from your fathers, win for yourself so that it miay, b)e vour own. So wrote Goethe, and nio better motto could be written for the past lhistory, and I hope the future history, of this medical school. For in the past hulndre(d years each generation has produced 'ani outstan(ling, tealchcr and lea(ler. Thlle roll includes Aindrews, Gordoon, Redferni, Cuming, Svningtoni, anl